Meanings of quaternary period in anglès

The existence therefore of man in the quaternary period seemed to become daily more certain.

Therefore the genuineness of a fossil human relic of the quaternary period seemed to be incontestably proved and admitted.

The Cenozoic era comprises two divisions,-theTERTIARY period and the QUATERNARY period.

The existence of men in the Quaternary period became, therefore, more positive every day.

His departure marks the end of the Quaternary period.

This ushered in the Quaternary period, during which very slowly the temperature came to its present degree.

Recurrent cycles of climatic change during the Quaternary period have dramatically affected the population genetic structure of many species.

Gentlemen, I have the honor on this auspicious occasion to present to you a man of the Quaternary period of our globe.

008.jpg Palaeolithic Implements of the Quaternary Period.

That wondrous dream, when I saw the antehistorical times revivified, when the Tertiary and Quaternary periods passed before me, was now realized!

At the beginning of the Quaternary period there were alive the cave-bear, the cave-lion, the amphibious hippopotamus, the rhinoceros with chambered nostrils, the mammoth.

The authenticity of a human fossil of the Quaternary period seemed then to be incontestably demonstrated, and even to be admitted by the most skeptical.